# What is essential content for a new community?

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [July 27, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-essential-content-for-a-new-community/234171 "2022-07-27T17:38:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 7:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-essential-content-for-a-new-community/234171/9 "2022-07-28T19:17:41Z")

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> [@maiki](#):
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> Yeah, we might break that down into smaller docs

In an ideal world, that kind of documentation would be available directly in the Discourse instance in a “help” sidebar. Similar to what Slack do. In the non-ideal real world, copying the docs to a topic on the site makes sense.

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